[poppler] [RFC] Add option to keep alpha channel to Qt frontends

[Albert Astals Cid]

El Diumenge, 12 de juliol de 2015, a les 19:06:38, Adam Reichold va escriure:
> Hello,
> 
> Am 12.07.2015 um 18:14 schrieb Albert Astals Cid:
> > Then maybe we can change the flag name to be IgnorePaperColor?
> > 
> > The wording you suggest and how one is disconnected from the other makes
> > me a bit unforncortable.
> 
> I agree to the suggested name change. Could you apply the renaming
> locally or should I prepare a new patch set?
> 
> > Makes sense to me, shall i just pick the three first commits from
> > splash-no- background-v4.patch ?
> 
> Yes, just picking first three commits will add the IgnorePaperColor
> option but it will not change the default image format to RGB8 which is
> done in the fourth commit and is what will improve performance for
> existing unmodified consumers.
> 
> So I'd suggest to take it up to the fourth commit "Switch default image
> format of Qt frontends". Of course this also has a certain potential for
> regression since consumer programs might assume that Poppler's images
> will always be ARGB32 instead of checking QImage::format to discover
> that it is RGB888 instead. But it still does not touch Splash's
> internals and hence and so any effects should be easy to localize.

Commited, btw are you still available on that myopera email adress that we 
have for you in the Copyright lines?

Cheers,
  Albert

> 
> Best regards, Adam.